Azir vs Katarina
How to Beat Katarina as Azir
based on 2,098 Azir vs Katarina matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Azir vs Katarina Matchup Summary
Best Azir vs Katarina Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Katarina as Azir
Tips for Playing as Azir against Katarina
Be a bird!
In the lane, try to position your soldiers between the enemy's minions and the enemy champion. This way you can use them both to last hit and to project threat onto your lane opponent.
Be careful about putting down both of the soldiers stored by Arise! Unless you're going all-in, always have a soldier in your back pocket if you need to escape over a wall or if you misposition your other soldier and need damage now.
Think of Emperor's Divide as a defensive ability first and foremost. Use it when the enemy engages on you or your allies. Remember that your team can walk through the soldiers summoned by Emperor's Divide and use this to your advantage when enemy melee champions engage on you.
Advice to Win Against Katarina
Katarina's abilities deal magic damage, so even if she's building Attack Damage items, get magic resistance to counter her.
Try to save a disable for when Katarina uses her Death Lotus.
Azir vs Katarina Counter Stats
How to Counter Katarina with Azir in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page emphasize several vital Azir vs. Katarina matchup stats that may help us understand the differences and similarities between these two champions. For instance, Azir’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Katarina’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Azir may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Katarina..
Azir typically has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his foe does. Typically, he receives less damage than Katarina. This often reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also indicate that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Azir and Katarina
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Who is Better, Azir or Katarina?
Both League champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Azir usually wins when playing against Katarina, with a 51.8% win rate. Thus, Azir makes a good counter for Katarina.
While Azir does have a higher winrate than Katarina, when facing one another, Azir also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more difficult champion to learn. You should be careful when picking Azir into Katarinaas his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Azir also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Katarina. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Azir vs Katarina matchups, Azir is the better champion with a higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Azir is a decent counter to Katarina. Focus your actions on keeping up your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Azir against Katarina.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Azir in order to counter Katarina during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Azir often picks up a similar amount of CS compared to Katarina. Champions who on average don't get much CS usualy don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The top items to focus on in your Azir versus Katarina build consist of Lich Bane, Nashor's Tooth, and Shadowflame. When Azir incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better when fighting Katarina than with most other common builds. In fact, Azir boasted an average winrate of 51.8% when countering Katarina with this build.
To have the greatest probability of crushing Katarina as Azir, you should use the Fleet Footwork, Presence of Mind, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Manaflow Band, and Scorch runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players picked for Azir vs Katarina counterpicks, this combo of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 51.8% win rate overall.
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